The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-11-17

piano and had just struck the wrong chord,
John Sebastian Bach. the immortal COM
poser, entered the room, and the amateur
rose in embarrassment. and Bach rushed past
the host, who stepped forward to greet him.
and before the keyboard had stopped vibrat.
ing, put his adroit hand upon the keys and
changed the painful inharmony into glorious
cadence Then Bach turned and gave salu'
tation to the host who had invited him.
But the worst of all discords Is moral dis
cord. II society and the world are painfully
discordant to imperfect man, what must they
be I'd perfect God! People try to define
what sin is. 1t seems to me that sin is get
ment with His holiness, with His purity, with
His love, with His commands; our will clash
ing with His will, the finite dnshing against
the infinite, the frall against the puissant the
created against the Creator. II thousand
musicians, with flute, and cornet- a-piston,
and trumpet, and violoncello, and hautboys,
and trombone, and all the wind and stringed
instruments that ever gathered in Dussel-
dorf jubilee, should resolve that they would
play out of tune AMI put concord to the rack,
and make the place wild with shfieking, and
grating, and rasping sounds, they could not
make such a pandemonlum as that which
RACES in a sinful soul when God listens to the
play of its thoughts, passions and emotions
discord, lifelong discord, maddening discord
The world pays more for discord than it
does for consonancs High prices have been
paid for music. One man gave 1925 to hear
the Swedish songstress in New York and an.
other S625 to hear her in Boston, and another
$3.50 to hear her in Providence. Fabulous
prices have been paid for sweet sounds, but
Far more has been paid for discord. The
Crimean war cost 81 ,7O0, 100000, and our
American cival war over S9,500, 900, 900, and
the war debts of professed Christian nations
ahN,,k TI,r. x,nv.l We
for this red ticket which admits it to the
nies, and destroyed cities, and plowed graves,
and crushed hearts, any amount Of money
Satan asks. Discord! Discord
But l have to tell you that tie song
that the morning stars sang together
at the laying Of the worlds corner
stone is to be resumed again. Mozart's
greatest overture was composed one night
when he was several times overnowered with
sleep, and artists say they can tell the places
in the music where he was falling asleep and
the places where he awakened So the over
ture of the morning stars spoken Of in my
text has been asleep but it will awaken and
be more grandly rendered by the evening
stars of the worlds existence than by the
morning stars, and the vespars will be
sweeter than the mathis The work Of all
good men and women and of all good
churches and all reform associations is to
bring the race back to the original harmony.
The rebellious heart to be attuned, social life
to be attuned, commercial ethics to be at
tuned, internationally to be attuned, hemis-
f,neres to be attuned-but by what force
and in what waya
In olden time the chorist,rs had a tuning
fork with two prongs, and they would strike
it on the back OF pew or music rack and put
it to the ear and then start the tune, and all
the other voices would join. In modern or
chestra the leader has complete instrument,
rightly attuned, and he sounds that and all
the other performers turn the keys of their
instruments to make them correspond, and
sound the bow over the string, and listen,
and sound out over again, until all the keys
are screwed to concert pitch, and the dis
cords melt into one great symphony and the
curtain hoists, and the baton taps, and audi
ences are raptured with Schumann's Para
disc and the PERU or Rossini's "Stabat Mater'
or Bach's "Magnificat' in d, or Councils
Redemption"
Now, our world can never be attuned by
an imperfect instrument Even q Cremona
would not do. Heaven has ordained the only
instrument and it is made out of the wood of
the cross, and the voices that accompany it
are imported voices, cantatrices of the first
Christmas night, when heaven serenaded the
earth with "Glory to God in the highest and
on earth peace, good will to men," Lest we
start too far off and get lost in .generaties,
we had better begin with ourselves. get our
own hearts and life in harmony with the
eternal Christ. Oh, for His almighty spirit
to attune us, to chord our will with his will,
to modulate our life with his life, and bring
us into unison with all that is pure and self
sacrificing and heavenly. The strings of our
nature are all broken and twisted, and the
bow is so slack it cannot evoke anything mel
lifluoua The Instrument made for heaven to
play on has been roughly twanged and struck
by influences worldly and demoniac. O.,
master hand of Christ, restore this split and
fractured and despoiled and unstrung nature
until it shall wall out for this sin, and then
thrill with divine pardon.
| The whole world must also be attuned by
| the same power. A few days ago | was in
tie Fairbanks weighing scale mandatory
! of Vermont. Six hundred hands, and they
have never had strike. Complete harmony
| between labor and capital, the operatives OF
scores of years in their beautiful homes near
by the mansions of the manufacturers, whose
invention and Christian behavior made the
| great enterprise So all the world over labor
and capital will be brought into euphony
| You may have heard what is called the ''An-
| vii Chorus" composed by Verdi, tune
played by hammers, great and small, now
with mighty stroke, and now with heavy
stroke, beating great iron anvil That is
what the world has got to come to-anyi
chorus, yard stick chorus, shuttle chorus,
| trowel chorus, crowbar chorus, pickaS
chorus, gold mine chorus rail track chorus,
locomotive chorus. 1t can be done, and il
will be DONE So all social life will be at
tuned by the Gospel harp. There will
| be as many classes in society as
now, but the classes will not be regu
lated by birth, or wealth, or accident,
but by the scale Of virtue and benevolence
and people will be assigned to their PLACES
!
cellent. So also, commercial life will he
attuned, and there will be twelve in every
dozen and sixteen ounces in every pound,
and apples at the bottom of the barrel will be
as sound as those on top, and silk goods will
not be cotton, and sellers Will not have K
charge honest people more than the righ
price because others will not pay, and good
will come to you corresponding with the
sample by which you purchased them, ant
coffee will not be chickoried and sugar vii
not be sanded and milk will not be chalkec
and adulteration of food will be a Statei
prison offense. Aye, all things shall be at
tuned, Elections in England and the unitee
States will no more he grand carnival O
defamation and scurrility, but the elevator
of righteous men in righteous way.
In the Sixteenth century the singers, called
the Fischer brothers, reached the lowest bass
ever recorded, and the highest note ever
thrilled was by Ia Bastardella, and Cataiinis
voice had compass of three and half octaves
but Christianity is more wonderful for 1t rum
all up and down the greatest heights and the
deepest depths of the worlds necessity, ant
it will compass everything and bring it in ac
cord with the song which the morning star
sang at the laying of the world cornerstone
Ali the sacred music in homes and concer
halls and churches tends toward this consun
nation. Make it more and more hearty
Sng in your families Sing in your place
of business. II we with proper spirit US
these faculties, we are rehearsing for tn
! skies.
Heaven is to have a new song, an entirel.
new song, but l should not wonder if, a
sometimes on earth tune is fashioned out o
many tunes, or it is one time with the varia
ations, so some Of the songs of the redeeme'
may have playing through them the songs o
earth, and how thrilling as coming throuel
the great anthem of the saved, accompanies
by harpers with their harps, and trumpeter
with their trumpets, we shoud hear some Q
the strains of Antioch, aul Mount Pis5aii
and Coronation, and Lenox, ,snl st Martin $
and Fountain, and Ariel and O.d Hun Ire
How they would bring to N nd the prayin!
circles. and communion days, and the Christ
mas festivals, aud the church worship il
which on earth we min yleil have NJ i LEI
that when we bid farewell to elrth we are {;